Research

ECIC faculty is involved in a wide spectrum of research projects from the pre-hospital setting to rehabilitation, encompassing both unintentional and intentional injuries.

Some topics include:

ECIC Research Portfolio

One of the key components of any Injury Control Research Center is to conduct innovative violence and unintentional injury prevention research. To this end, the ECIC has assembled a comprehensive research portfolio that is explicitly multidisciplinary and multi-institutional in character and focused on current CDC priorities.

Faculty Seed Grant Program

We have created a multi-disciplinary Faculty Seed Grant Program to facilitate and promote innovation, preliminary and interdisciplinary research activities to yield future high-impact injury prevention research. The 4 categories of grants are designed to provide incentives and support for researchers to work collaboratively with interdisciplinary teams and community members on projects that can lead to larger grant proposals related to violence and injury prevention or that support the preparation of a larger grant proposal.

Each year applications will be due by November 15th for a funding period of one year (February – January). For more details, please check our website in the Fall to download the grant application.

Congratulations to our 2010 Grantees!!!

Frank Franklin, PhD, Morehouse School of Medicine:
Community Disadvantage, Primary Care, and Injury-Related Emergency Department Utilization

Abigail Hankin, MD, MPH, Emory University:
Development and Validation of an Emergency Department Screening Tool for Predicting Risk of Violent Injury Among Adolescents

Kyle Steenland, PhD, Emory University:
Analysis of Atlanta Emergency Room Visits for Injury by Socioeconomic Status

Rob Stephenson, PhD, Emory University:
Intimate Partner Violence Among Gay and Bisexual Men: Social Context and Risk Taking

Dan Whitaker, PhD, Georgia State University:
Using Technology to Enhance SafeCare Training: Pilot Study

Injury Research Funding

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
www.grants.gov

Office of Violence Against Women
www.ovw.usdoj.gov/ovwgrantprograms.htm